When renowned film director Péter Gárdos wrote the story, he intended it as a film script, but eventually he made it into a novel. “Fever at Dawn,” the love story of two Holocaust survivors―the author’s parents―has ever since sold in more than 20 territories.

Our nostalgic feeling for the piping days of peace is so insistent that
it will soon cease to have anything to do with the real story of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. This nostalgia is the topic and the tone of
István Kerékgyártó’s novel, Milán Trüffel, or the Life of an Adventurer.

Café Amsterdam, an international Dutch festival, will be held in Budapest for the first time this year, between 29-31 May. We talked to Mireille Berman of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, the organizer of the festival that will feature Dutch, Hungarian, British and American artists.

I close my eyes, in my mind I distance myself from the blue planet and
step onto the surface of the smaller planet known as Xanax. In earlier
times, beings lived here, the citizens of Catatonia, however they were
swept away by the edge of a long dream, and since then the heavenly body
is completely uninhabited.